Story is a powerful way to build compassion and bridge understanding between cultures. Story has the power to heal as well as teach.
Recent Books by Nancy Bo Flood
Beyond Boundaries · Essays and tidbits from Nancy Bo Flood
Hydrologists look deep inside, finding ancient water in unlikely places
August 25, 2015
Now imagine you are looking DOWN, deep in the earth, at least several hundred feet.
Beneath the surface of our western deserts, hydrologists have found pockets of ancient water – water trapped during the last ice age.
Wouldn’t you like a nice, WARM drink of water? Try it. It’s good for you!
August 20, 2015
Water helps us cool down when we get too hot. Drinking a warm glass of water energizes, soothes a headache, and can relieve asthma.
How does warm water help you cool down?
It’s all right to cry, flamingo
August 18, 2015
Flamingos are one of the few land creatures that can drink salt water and live. That is because they excrete (get rid of) the deadly salt by crying.
Flamingos cry salty tears. Water and salty tears keep them…
Prune People? Raisin Kids? Water protects us
August 11, 2015
The water inside you is salty, like ocean water.
And if this water dries up, what a life-less prune-person, raisin-kid, mummy-man you would become!
Ursula Le Guin’s take on Atticus and Scout
August 6, 2015
This quote from Ursula K. Le Guin’s review of Go Set a Watchman intrigued me:
“Watchman isn’t free of childishness — its author was still pretty young — but its goals are adult ones: to show how…
Beyond wet dogs: is there water on Pluto?
August 4, 2015
Water runs through countries, continents, and into oceans.
Water creates watersheds, communities, that connect us all. We are linked around the globe from beginning to end by water. Now as we explore the universe for other planets, we search for…
Capturing the look and feel of water, in words and pictures
July 30, 2015
“You are water–at least two-thirds of you. Even your bones! Water in the discs in your backbone give support so you can stand, walk, and run. Your…
